{"id":543058,"date":"2021-05-27T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=543058"},"modified":"2021-05-27T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:21:24","slug":"she-claimed-a-texas-lobbyist-drugged-her-an-investigation-determined-the-accusation-was-an-effort-to-cover-up-an-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-claimed-a-texas-lobbyist-drugged-her-an-investigation-determined-the-accusation-was-an-effort-to-cover-up-an-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"She Claimed A Texas Lobbyist Drugged Her. An Investigation Determined The Accusation Was An Effort To Cover Up An Affair."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshe-claimed-a-texas-lobbyist-drugged-her-an-investigation-determined-the-accusation-was-an-effort-to-cover-up-an-affair%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=543058&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-688540222-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An explosive story alleging a male lobbyist with a prominent firm in Austin, Texas had drugged two female legislative staffers with a date-rape drug was plastered across the mainstream media. Now, an investigation into the claims has found that the woman who made the initial allegations had lied, but of course she won\u2019t be published, even though she falsely accused a man, causing him trauma and damaging his career.<\/p>\n<p>The story began on April 24, 2021, when Texas State Capitol staffers and others connected to the state house were sent an ominous text.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo male lobbyists (unnamed so far) roofied\/drugged two young Capitol staffers at the Austin Club,\u201d it said, according to the Houston Chronicle. \u201cGirls OD\u2019d and were hospitalized. Leadership has been briefed. Girls pressing all charges. All levels of law enforcement involved. Lots of cameras at the Austin Club. Should be in the press soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard Dennis, a lobbyist who five years earlier served as chief of staff to a state representative, received the message like so many others. Dennis, 42, told the Chronicle that he recalled not drinking at the Austin Club in three weeks. \u201cAbout 6 p.m. that evening, however, his employer informed him that he was the prime suspect in an alleged crime that had occurred three and a half weeks earlier,\u201d the Chronicle reported.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis told the outlet that he and a few colleagues went to the Austin Club on April 1, sitting at what is known as the \u201cHillCo Table,\u201d named for the lobbyist firm where he worked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, you\u2019re two-thirds of the way through the session, you can kind of see the light at the end of the tunnel,\u201d Dennis told the Chronicle. \u201cEveryone was in a great mood, and everyone was enjoying each other\u2019s company. The rounds were being refreshed frequently at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dennis said that after about three hours, he, another male legislative aide, and the female staffer who would eventually accuse him, went to a nearby restaurant for food and were later joined by another male legislative staffer. The group had more drinks, and Dennis called an Uber around 11 p.m. to go home.<\/p>\n<p>After the Austin America-Statesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/04\/24\/dps-investigating-allegation-female-capitol-staffer-drugged-texas-department-public-safety\/7368000002\/\">broke<\/a> the story of the alleged drugging and sexual assault, Texas Scorecard publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/state\/texas-capitol-roiled-by-alleged-sexual-assault\/\">named<\/a> Dennis as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI absolutely, definitively knew I did not date rape drug anyone,\u201d Dennis told the Chronicle. \u201cMy biggest fear was that these two poor girls had been drugged, but drugged by someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chronicle reported that it was the female staffer\u2019s co-worker, a different woman at the Capitol, who reported a drugging incident. Neither woman was named by the Chronicle, even though Dennis had his name and photo splashed across media outlets. This co-worker told the Texas Department of Public Safety that she blacked out after only having a few drinks at the Austin Club and woke up thinking she felt worse than she should have. She went to a nearby emergency room and was treated for dehydration and nausea, according to the DPS investigation report reviewed by the Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>The staffer who made the false accusation against Dennis reportedly told her co-worker that she had also blacked out, but later that night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother Capitol worker had taken the staffer to his home for the night. In texts to her boyfriend and her co-worker\u2019s mother,&nbsp;the staffer said she had gone to a medical clinic where she tested positive for GHB, a common date rape drug,\u201d the DPS report said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman claimed to her friend that the clinic had \u201cfound GHB in my blood,\u201d however, DPS investigators discovered the clinic never tested the woman for GHB.<\/p>\n<p>DPS Special Agent Patrick Alonzo investigated the woman\u2019s claim, and found more inconsistencies, the Chronicle reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man who had taken the staffer home reported that she appeared inebriated but otherwise fine. The next morning, she felt poorly, he said, but the two had dismissed it as a combination of her recent COVID vaccination shot and the drinking,\u201d the outlet reported. \u201cThe female staffer agreed to meet with Alonzo once, after which she stopped returning his calls. In her taped interview, she told the investigator that after her second drink she couldn\u2019t remember anything and had woken up the next morning at her friend\u2019s East Austin apartment not knowing how she got there. Contradicting her earlier story, she said she was not tested for date rape drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A DPS investigator noted in their report that \u201cThroughout the interview (she) attempted to sell SA Alonzo the reputation of Richard Dennis rather than articulate facts as to why Dennis or any other lobbyist or person at the table would have placed an adulterant into her or (her friend\u2019s) drink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The co-worker\u2019s mother, whom the accuser had been texting with her allegations, was the first to suggest that the woman may be trying to cover up an affair \u2013 with the man who took her home from the restaurant the night of the alleged incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe needed a cover story for her infidelity,\u201d the co-worker said, according to the DPS report, adding that the accuser had been secretly having an affair with the male staffer that she was keeping from her live-in boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Alonzo concluded that the woman had been \u201cdeceitful\u201d when working with DPS. Agency medical staff determined that the COVID vaccines combined with the amount of alcohol the women consumed could explain their symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>The woman told the Chronicle that she \u201cdidn\u2019t file a police report or accuse anyone of anything\u201d and didn\u2019t \u201corchestrate anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The co-worker who initially suspected she had been drugged reportedly burst into tears when she learned her friend had made false claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I would\u2019ve filed anything if I would\u2019ve known from the beginning it wasn\u2019t what I thought it was,\u201d she told investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis\u2019 supervisor released a statement after learning the allegations against the lobbyist were false.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe alleged drugging incident at the Capitol where one of our employees was named a \u2018person of interest\u2019 was quickly proven to be completely false and a total fabrication, perpetrated by unscrupulous people for nefarious reason to frame an innocent party,\u201d he said, according to the Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis told the Chronicle that he contemplated suicide after the accusation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI contemplated, with my life insurance, maybe I am at this point better off not walking this earth, to my family, than I am walking in it,\u201d he said. \u201cShe needed an alibi. For some reason, this is the story that she settled on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Jose Garza campaigned on being tough on sexual assault cases, so after he was presented with Alonzo\u2019s findings \u2013 just days after the story broke \u2013 he released a statement that didn\u2019t absolve Dennis. Instead, the Chronicle reported, Garza insisted that \u201crecent events have amplified the conversation in our community that women should have the right to feel safe at all times. This conversation is long overdue, and we are encouraged by the Texas Legislature\u2019s attention to these important issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dennis\u2019s attorneys, David and Perry Minton, told the outlet that Garza \u201cshould have immediately and definitively exonerated our client \u2026 rather than highlighting the issues that got him elected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chronicle, too, engaged in an effort to pretend Dennis\u2019 story is rare, even though so many allegations made as part of the #MeToo movement turned out similarly. Prior to explaining just how the woman made the accusations and how they were debunked, the Chronicle spent several paragraphs insisting women underreport sexual assault and that their claims \u201ctoo often had been ignored, disbelieved or covered up.\u201d The outlet also claimed that \u201cReported assaults that law enforcement initially dismissed as false have later been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/false-rape-accusations-an-unbelievable-story\">proved true<\/a>,\u201d implying that even when someone thinks a story is false, it\u2019s actually true. Even though the outlet said \u201cassaults\u201d \u2013 plural \u2013 they link to exactly one example. Granted, it\u2019s an insane story, but it is the only example, yet it has received a Pulitzer and a TV series.<\/p>\n<p>The woman who made the false accusation against Dennis and dragged his name through the mud will, predictably, face no charges, as is often the case with false accusers.<\/p>\n<p>Even though this is yet another #MeToo allegation that ended up being false, it is unlikely the media will stop reporting every allegation as if true.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosive story alleging a male lobbyist with a prominent firm in Austin, Texas had drugged two female legislative staffers with a date-rape drug was plastered across the mainstream media. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313285,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-688540222-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"She Claimed A Texas Lobbyist Drugged Her. 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